The crops were swallowed by the earth and the animals laid down and turned to dust. The village's wells dried up and the river turned to sand. A Shiva lingam (possibly one of the five lost Sankara stones "with magical properties") had been stolen from their shrine, and the village had been under a curse of famine and misery ever since. Nanayakkara) to the ominous, burned-out, desolate, cursed village of Mayapore filled with poor and starving villagers, where they were informed that at Pankot Palace ("with the power of the Dark Light"), there was a new maharaja: "It is that place kill my people.The evil start at Pankot, then like monsoon it moves darkness over all country.They came from palace and took Sivalinga from our village" - the village's strange, sacred, and precious mystical stone. They were guided by elderly shaman Sajnu (D.R. The yellow dinghy plunged off a steep cliff into wild river rapids - where the raging river took them to the base of the Mayapore hills in East India. They landed on a sloped, snowy mountaintop and used the float as a tobaggan to sled down the steep incline. To save themselves, Indy transformed an inflatable emergency rubber raft into a parachute when they were forced to abandon the plane over the Himalayas to avoid crashing. The aircraft began to sputter and lose altitude, and then went into a tailspin. As they slept in the back of the plane during the flight, Lao's pilots dumped fuel from the plane and then parachuted to safety ("No one's flying the plane!" Willie screamed). However, it was actually Lao's air-freight plane piloted by his hoods. Driving the car was Indy's diminutive ten year-old Chinese sidekick Short Round (Ke Huy Quan) - the chase continued through Shanghai's narrow streets and back alleys as they were fired upon.Īt the airport, the threesome boarded a Pan American Airways propellor plane, believing it was bound for Siam. Willie (with the vial) and Indy escaped behind a giant rolling brass gong, and jumped from a window of the multi-storied building to an awaiting luxury car/taxi below. An epic melee broke out in the nightclub involving revolvers, machine guns, a struggle to obtain the diamond and the antidote vial (both being kicked around on the floor), ice cubes, and black and white balloons everywhere. The hood double-crossed him - he poisoned Indy's cocktail drink and then bargained to exchange a life-saving antidote for the diamond. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) was in the audience at the table of Chinese crime boss Lao Che (Roy Chiao), demanding payment (a large and precious diamond) for his services in obtaining Lao's royal ancestor - the "remains of Nurhachi, the first Emperor of Manchu Dynasty" - his cremated remains were in a jade urn. Set in the year 1935, the film opened in Shanghai, China, where famous blonde American nightclub singer Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott (Kate Capshaw) (Indy's romantic love interest) of Club Obi-Wan (homage to Star Wars) was singing an English/Chinese version of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" - a lavish, sultry, and bizarre production number bathed in reddish smoke, reminiscent of a Busby Berkeley choreography. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
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